Bethlehem Crop Walk On Oct. 5 Seeks $25,000 Fyi

June 26, 1986|The Morning Call

Organizers of a 10-mile CROP Walk for World Hunger, to begin in Bethlehem at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 5, announced a goal yesterday of 500 walkers and $25,000.

CROP is the hunger appeals program of Church World Service, an ecumenical organization representing 31 Christian and Jewish world relief bodies. It works to alleviate world hunger in more than 70 countries through food distribution and development projects that try to eliminate the causes of hunger.

Twenty-five percent of the money will go toward local hunger relief, and the remaining 75 percent will be sent to CROP for world hunger relief and development projects to cure the causes of hunger.

Walkers raise money by gathering pledges per mile walked. Last year, about 350 walkers raised more than $17,500.

Bethlehem Area Coordinator Becky Samuelson said that "last year's walk was a great success, which we hope to improve on. Even though famine and hunger are rarely in the headlines this year, they are ongoing problems throughout the world. The continued demand for soup kitchens and food banks in the Lehigh Valley shows the problem is coming closer to home."

Assisting in the organization are Beverly Belnome-Morgan, John Brodell, J.C. Hafer, Fred Robertson, Steve Samuelson and Tom Santanasto. People interested in working on the walk or walking can contact the Samuelsons at 529 Linden St., Bethlehem, 18018, or call 865-7912.